A woman prays in front of the graves at a Hazara cemetery for the Shi'ite Hazara community martyrs on a hill on the outskirts of Kabul. Decades of persecution has left the Hazara minority with little space left in its graveyards[1][2]
map of Kabul province and its surroundings showing the boundaries of the different Hazara tribes in 1893. Between 1888-1893, according to historical evidence, nearly 60% of the Hazaras were massacred and their land seized by the Pashtuns. Today,Uruzgan province and many areas that were inhabited by Hazaras until 1893 are now mostly inhabited by Pashtuns.
Conditions improved for the Hazaras in Afghanistan during the post-Taliban era. However, Hazaras who lived in the southern provinces of Afghanistan continued to face unofficial discrimination at the hands of Pashtuns.[5]
Dozens of women from the Hazara community of Afghanistan protested after a suicide bombing in September 2022, occurred in an educational center that killed more than 52 young girl.
Today (2021–present) due to widespread ethnic discrimination[6][7][8] religious persecution[9][10] organized attacks by terrorist groups[11][12]harassment and arbitrary arrest of Hazara women and girls under various reasons[13][14] Kidnapping, rape and torture of hazara girls and women in prison[15][16][17] seizures of Hazara lands and homes[18][19][20]Imposing deliberate economic restrictions and creating deliberate economic backwardness of Hazara regions[21][22][23]Seizing agricultural fields, and forcing Hazara farmers to migrate or flee from Afghanistan[24][25]Occupying pastures of Hazara areas by pashtun nomads and Taliban supporters[26][27] and numerous cases of human rights violations against Hazaras have caused many Hazaras to be displaced and gradually forced to flee Afghanistan[28][29][30][31]